embrown

verb4

1. •
   (literary) To make (something) brown; to brown.

   • For blight of the season embrowneth the bloom, / And time winnows falshood, like chaff, as it flies: […] — 1799
2. •
   (literary) To become or make brown; to brown.

   • [O]n the board display'd / The ready meal before Ulysses lay'd. / (VVith flour imbrovvn'd) next mingled vvine yet nevv, / And luscious as the Bee's nectareous devv: […] — 1725
3. •
   (literary) To make (something) dark or dusky (“having a rather dark shade of colour”); to brown, to darken.

   • […] Nature boon / Powrd forth profuse on Hill and Dale and Plaine, / Both where the morning Sun first warmly smote / The open field, and where the unpierc't shade / Imbround the noontide Bowrs: […] — 1667
4. •
   (literary) To become or make dark or dusky; to brown, to darken.

   • Now was the day departing, and the air, / Imbrown'd with shadows, from their toils releas'd / All animals on earth; […] — 1814